Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World
That Gil Renberg can preface his weighty two-volume study of incubation in the ancient world with a note that it developed as a side project to two other books he is writing (also on dreams in antiquity) demonstrates the richness of the topic of ancient dreaming and its relative recent neglect in s...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Kernos
2020
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | That Gil Renberg can preface his weighty two-volume study of incubation in the ancient world with a note that it developed as a side project to two other books he is writing (also on dreams in antiquity) demonstrates the richness of the topic of ancient dreaming and its relative recent neglect in scholarship. In Where Dreams May Come, Renberg examines incubation — the practice of sleeping in a deity’s sanctuary in order to receive a god-sent dream — in the Ancient Near East, the Ancient Gree... |
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